NC State MBA team takes 1st place in Teradata challenge

More honors for NC State's Jenkins MBA program!  Jaideep Basak, Ryan Randall, Dena Simkus and Anjanie Kashidas took 1st place in the Teradata University Network Analytics Challenge.   There were 45 teams involved, five of which presented at the Teradata annual conference in Las Vegas earlier this month.

The NC State team's entry was based on their spring 2018 project in the Decision Analytics Practicum.  Kudos to the team and to David Baumer, their faculty advisor.

NC State MBAs excel at case competitions

In two recent case competitions, teams representing the NC State Jenkins MBA team have excelled.  At the National Black MBA Conference in New Orleans, 34 top-tier schools competed.  NC State's team placed second, just behind the University of Michigan.  Other schools that competed include Boston University, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, MIT, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rice, Rutgers,  Southern Cal, Texas A&M, UCLA, UNC-CH, and Vanderbilt.  

Kudos to David Satterfield, Rudhawarsh Loganathan, Chandan Dash, Malcolm Scott, Aarathi Sree Srinivasan, and Vishnu Kotipalli for representing the program so well.  Rudhawarsh also was one of six contestants recognized as one of the best presenters in the first round.  Also at National Black, Jelyse Dawson finished fourth (out of 300) in the Innovation Whiteboard Challenge.  

Kevin Weisner's team finished in first place in the US division of the Novo Nordisk Innovation in Action Case Competition.  Kevin goes to Denmark in two weeks to compete against a Danish team for the global championship.  

NC State is hosting its first case competition starting tomorrow, the NC State Grand Business Challenge sponsored by Merck.  There will be nine other schools competing

NC State wins statewide case competition

Kudos to MBAs Ben Mathew, Mansi Shah, and Michael Donahoe and MAC student Alyssa Jaklitsch for winning the Association for Corporate Growth Private Equity/M&A case competition.  The team beat three teams -- Duke, UNC, and Wake Forest -- with investment banking experience to take the top spot.  Last year's team took 2nd place; aced out by exec MBAs from Wake.  The team will be recognized at an ACG meeting in April in front of over 50 private equity and investment banks.   

Kudos as well to Professor Ken Marks, who helped prepare the team.  This is the type of recognition that helps put NC State's MBA on the map.